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Na. 625,836. Patented May 30,1899. J. DELA MAB.

' SEAL.

(Application filed Aug. 4, 1898.)

(No Model.)

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NITED STATES PATENT OF ICE.

JOSEPH DELA MAR, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO SEAL.

JR., OF SAME PLACE.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 625,836, dated Mayeo, 1899.

Application filed August 4, 1 898.

To ctZZ whmn it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH DELA MAR, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Freight-Car and Analogous Seals, of which the following is a specification.

This im'ention relates toseal attachments for freight-car doors, boxes, and packages being transported by vessel, railroad, or otherwise and being generally constructed with a soft-metal closing-sealfor the binding orattachment wire. The soft-metal seal iseasily rejointed and rescaled and the joints made unobservable. Therefore such seals, by these reasons,are frequently fraudulently unsealed, rejointed, and rescaled, and detection is avoided.

The object of myinvention is "to construct the attachment with a binding-and closing privy seal of a non-rejointable character and material which when rescaled shall expose being broken and be readily detectable, and said attachment shall also carry with it a record-ticket with a mark or number foreach or a long-stopping place of the travel of the car with sealed goods, so that at eachstopping or station their seals may be inspected and if found not having been rescaled a cer tain punch or mark to be put on said ticket by the inspector opposite or across the corresponding station-mark,- but should" the inspector find seal attachments rescaled another mark to be made opposite the stationmark to detect the station at which seals have a detached front view of the loose attaching and binding wire of the seal to the car in con- Serial No. 687,709. (No model.)

dition before used. Fig. 5 is a detached sectional front view of the loose cap for I'GCGIV'.

to the cap shape or box, as shown. The periphery of the same has two central oblong opposite openings 0 G, into which the opposite loops D, formed on the attaching-wire A, enter, as shown in Fig. 3.

E represents the eye of the wire A for suspension'of the seal in the staple F of the car, and G is the hasp of the car-door. Said wire A has two opposite legs H H extending down from its eye E. A suitable distance down from the eye E each leg H has the opposite inward-bent loop D, and below the loops D the legs extend on each equally and sufficiently to attach the record-ticket K.

When the seal is attached to the car, the hasp of the door is passed over the staple E, and the wire A is passed through the staple until its eye Eis adjusted in the staple. The

cap B is now passed between the legs H of,

the wire. The loops D D of. the legs of the wire A are each passed into its respective opposite openings 0 O in the side of the cap B. The end of the loop D of the right leg is now bent over toform a hook, as shown, and the loop D of the left leg is spread out by a pointed tool to pass the hook of the right leg through the loop of the left leg, as shown in Fig. 3. By this means the cap Bis firmly attached, and the loops D are interlocked to one another between said legs, as shown, within the cap B. The record-ticket consists of a flat plate of sheet-tin or other material. 011 each vertical end is turned an eye 'i, as shown in Fig. 7. Into the eyes dot the record-ticket the legs H H of the wire A are inserted, and the ends of the legs protruding below the ticket are bent up,as shown, to lock the ticket from being removed from the legs. After the ticketis thus secured upon the legs of the wire A the seal attachment is turned in horizontal position, and the cap B is now filled with liquid plaster-of-paris, cement, or other rapid solidifying material, and before such material has hardened an impression of the privy seal of the transmitter or railroad company is made into the face of the exposed plaster or material in the cap B. I prefer as a sealing material in the cap B plaster-of-paris; but other material may be used of a character being irregular in separating and crumbling and breaking to pieces by removing the same, which is preferred, because being not rejointable, so as to avoid observation ordetection.

The face of the ticket K has a number for each dangerous or long or lengthy stopping or station impressed or marked on the ticket in its following passing order'by the train and an inspecting-officer of the road to mark at each stopping-place a mark on the ticket opposite the number of the station distinguishing the condition of the seals on the a ticket suitably, as found by the inspection undisturbed, rescaled, or broken. By these means the locality where seals have been broken are detected or traced.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a seal attachment,a binding-wire,provided with two loops which are adapted to be interlocked, combined with a ring having perforations through which the loops are.

passed, and a sealing medium placed in the ring around the interlocking loops, substantially as shown.

2. In a seal attachment,a binding-wire,pro- Vided with two inwardly extending loops which are adapted to interlock, and which loops are formed at a suitable distance above the two ends of the wire, a ring provided with perforations through which the loops are passed for the purpose of being interlocked, and a sealing medium placed in the ring around the interlocking ends, combined with a tag provided with an eye at each end, and which is secured to the two projecting ends of the Wire, substantially as set forth.

Signed at New York, in the county of New 5 York and State of New York, this 1st day of August, A. D. 1898.

JOSEPH DELA MAR. Witnesses:

THOMAS T. WHITE, W. R. MOON. 

